Eva Jospin: Re-Selvagen
Curated by Marcello Dantas
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba
Through August 10, 2025
Re-Selvagem by French artist EVA JOSPIN, is held by the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON) and is the artist's first show in Brazil. The exhibition is curated by Marcello Dantas.
The exhibition features nine large-scale works, including installations and drawings, as well as two videos. The installations' raw materials are silk embroidery and cardboard, but the artist also uses wood, bronze, fabric, and other materials.
"Eva Jospin at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum reinforces our mission to connect the Paraná public with the most relevant works in global contemporary art," says Luciana Casagrande Pereira, Secretary of State for Culture. "This exhibition also reaffirms Paraná's cultural diplomacy with France, in a particularly significant year marked by the celebrations of the Year of Brazil in France and of France in Brazil."
Juliana Vosnika, director-president of the MON, states that the sensitivity of French artist Eva Jospin is evident in this exhibition. "By addressing nature and time in poetic works of art, she evokes our emotional memories," she says.
Juliana comments that the physical encounter with art allows people to recognize themselves and their own history through the works. "In a fast-paced world, the physical space of museums presents a perfect balance to our digital saturation," she highlights. "This is and should always be one of the museum's roles: to awaken deep feelings from our unconscious."
Curator Marcello Dantas explains that Eva Jospin is known for her meticulous work of creating, with her own hands, illusions of an imaginary world—silent architectures and abundant natural spaces, born from the patient and obsessive gesture of restoring a sense of origin to matter.
"For Jospin, the forest is more than a representation of nature. It's a symbolic place, where mystery, the unexpected, and transformation occur," says Marcello Dantas. "As in ancient tales, his forests are territories where we lose ourselves and find ourselves again." In Re-Selvagem, visitors walk along trails of paper and shadow, entering universes of sculpted foliage, experiencing a kind of intimate ritual. The forms evoke forgotten memories, awaken images from the collective unconscious, and provoke silence.
ARTIST EVA JOSPIN
Eva Jospin was born in Paris (1975), where she graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. For the past 15 years, she has been creating meticulous forests and architectural landscapes, exploring them through a variety of media. Drawn in ink or embroidered, sculpted in cardboard or bronze, her works evoke Italian baroque gardens, 18th-century rocaille decorations, and artificial grottoes. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2017 and was elected to the Sculpture section of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2024.
Among her international exhibitions, the following stand out: “Inside”, at the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris (2014); “Sous-Bois”, at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, in Ferrara (2018); “Eva Jospin - Wald(t)räume”, at the Museum Pfalzgalerie, in Kaiserslautern (2019); “Among the Trees”, at Hayward Gallery, London (2020); “Paper Tales”, at the Het Noordbrabants Museum, in Den Bosch (2021); “Galleria”, at the Musée de la Chasse and Nature, in Paris (2021); “Panorama”, at the Fondation Thalie, in Brussels (2023); and “Palazzo”, at the Palais des Papes, in Avignon (2023). In 2024, she presented two new solo exhibitions: “Selva” at the Museo Fortuny in Venice during the 60th Venice Biennale, and “Eva Jospin - Versailles” at the Orangerie of the Château de Versailles. She also created several large-scale installations as part of special commissions, including “Panorama” (2016) in the center of the Louvre's Cour Carrée and “Cénotaphe” (2020) at Montmajour Abbey. She also created a series of embroidered panels for the Dior Haute Couture 2021-2022 show (Chambre de Soie, 2021).
CURATOR MARCELLO DANTAS
Marcello Dantas is a renowned Brazilian curator, artistic director, and producer, recognized for his interdisciplinary approach that integrates art, technology, and immersive sensory experiences. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1968, Dantas has a diverse academic background: he studied International Relations and Diplomacy in Brasília, Art History and Film Theory in Florence, and graduated in Film and Television from New York University, where he also completed a postgraduate degree in Interactive Telecommunications.
Throughout his career, Marcello Dantas has been responsible for the design and artistic direction of several museums and pavilions, both in Brazil and abroad. He is also known for curating high-impact exhibitions that attract large audiences and specialized critics. Among them are "Ai Weiwei: Root," by Chinese artist Ai WeiWei, and "Invisible and Unspeakable," by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, both at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum.
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Eva Jospin: Re-Selvagen
Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, June 5 - August 10, 2025
